Samsung Smart Switch is a preinstalled app on all Samsung phones that can be used to transfer data, apps, and settings from an old phone to a new one, whether the source be iPhone or Android (it cannot transfer from Android to iPhone). I’ve used
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I’ve been using Vegas Movie Studio for several years, and it’s the first time it’s refused to load. I have Movie Studio Platinum 13, 16, and 17, and on this occasion it was version 16 on my laptop that got stuck on the ” Creating
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Two years ago, in What Are Your Recent Gadget Purchases? I braggadocio-ly wrote about the gadgets I bought on a trip to the UK, all of which I still use, except the Amazon Echo Dot and the Samsung Galaxy A25 cell phone I’m about to
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Video formats can be confusing because compatibility with devices and software comes into play. For the purposes of this article, let’s stick to HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and H.264, the most common video format/codecs used today. When you record a video on your phone,
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After reading John Durso’s article on the excellent TMOG (Task Manager TMOG), I installed it but couldn’t find an option in its settings to run at Windows 11 startup. How To Add Programs To Windows Startup Hit the Windows key plus R, then type shell:startup.
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I didn’t realize the flight sim had been in the Google Earth desktop app since 2007, but it was only recently made available in the browser version. It’s really just a bit of fun, free to use, and easy to find. Open Google Earth in
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Why Am I Playing With Ancient Cassette Tapes? For the same reason that I convert VHS to digital – for posterity and safekeeping. But this one is more personal because I found an audio cassette tape from 1976 with a brief conversation that my now-wife
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I was prompted to consider this when I realised that our TV remotes have microphones for issuing commands, a feature I haven’t tried yet and probably never will. It’s just as easy to simply press a button on the remote. I do, however, use speech-to-text
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Virtual/digital assistants have been around for a while now, but with the advent of AI, they’ve become much more widespread and are generally known as AI assistants. But whatever name you give them, from a customer service point of view, they are complete trash! I
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Who would have thought that your television set would spy on you? I use that old term ‘television set’ intentionally because back in ye olden days, they really were just dumb boxes of cathode ray tubes and capacitors. You also had an alien-looking aerial, a
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Stowaway Do you love flying but hate the pre-flight and airport nonsense? With Stowaway, you can forget about all that and put yourself in a window seat right away. I tried it and put myself in the pilot’s seat, and there are numerous options for
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I’ve often sung the praises of Steam because of the many features it offers, but GOG goes one step further when it comes to offline play, DRM-free ownership, and classic game preservation. But one aspect of GOG I had never looked at is the offline
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Following on from my recent article How To Dumb Down Your Tech Devices, in which I somehow omitted to mention the privacy issue, the other day I came across a BBC article, Security by Antiquity, which explores why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers.
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First came smartphones, then smartwatches, then smart TVs, and now AI has taken over the ‘smart’ label, proving to be all-pervasive and invasive. I’ve noticed that many people are turning away from so-called smart devices (AI is another subject altogether), useful though many of them
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